Re: Why use "su -" rather than "su"

From: Tony Nelson (tonynelson_at_georgeanelson.com)
Date: 07/17/05

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    At 2:13 AM -0500 7/17/05, John Bray wrote:

    >here's a classic case of how to realllly screw up. su - to root. echo
    >$PATH note that some dolt has managed to set root's path to include
    >/usr/local/bin BEFORE the official sbins! want to guess how this
    >stupidity is eventually going to bite us all? :-(

    Mine isn't quite so bad, but it does turn out to have the pattern
    "foo/sbin", "foo/bin". I expect that you're saying that it should be all
    sbins, then the bins. I think I'll change it to that.
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